This Week's Cover Story
DSP-0142COVER · VOL. 14
MonsoonMath.
FIELD NOTES · COLD CHAIN

When the roads disappear, the math has to get smarter.

At 4:47 AM on July 12th last year, a temperature-controlled vaccine consignment bound for Thrissur was stranded in eight inches of water outside Kottayam. What happened in the next thirty-one minutes is why we rebuilt our entire monsoon protocol — and why every operator we hire now reads a three-page memo on the Indian Meteorological Department before their first shift.

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Priya MenonHead of Field Operations
April 18, 2026Posted 3 days ago
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OPS & TECH · DSP-0141

The 30-minute SLA, and what our dispatch engine actually does at 3 AM.

Most "GPS dispatch" is marketing. Ours is a scoring function with eleven inputs — rider skill, battery, traffic, weather, SLA pressure — that runs every ninety seconds. Here's the spec, open-sourced.

Arjun Varma · CTOApr 15 · 9 min read
COLD CHAIN · DSP-0140

A cold chain is only as strong as its weakest handoff.

Ninety-four percent of temperature excursions we logged last year didn't happen in transit. They happened at the dock — in the twelve minutes between truck and fridge. We rebuilt the handoff SOP. Excursions dropped 71%.

Sameer Joshi · Ops AnalyticsApr 12 · 7 min read
Latest Dispatches
Field Notes

Field notes from Guwahati: running ops in India's northeast.

The seven-sister states account for 4% of our volume and 22% of our lessons. A year into running a regional hub out of Guwahati, here's what works, what doesn't, and why we stopped applying the Bangalore playbook.

DSP-0139Fatima Rizvi · Regional Lead Apr 9 · 11 min
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Policy

The DCGI draft, translated: what the new sample-transit rules actually require.

The 48-page draft notification issued last month has the industry spooked. We read it twice, lined up a call with a regulator, and boiled it down to six changes your ops team needs to implement by August.

DSP-0138Naina Sharma · Policy Lead Apr 5 · 8 min
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Culture

Eight hundred phlebotomists. A training program, and the culture it built.

When you hire at speed across 285 cities, culture doesn't happen by accident. Here's how we built a certification program that became the company's backbone.

DSP-0137Rohan Iyer · People Operations Apr 1 · 10 min
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Insights

The small-town pharmacy dead zones no one is talking about.

We mapped last-mile pharmaceutical availability across 312 Tier-3 towns. The result isn't a story about distance — it's a story about inventory holding cost, local monopolies, and what breaks when you can't walk to a chemist.

DSP-0136Vikram Arora · Founder & CEO Mar 28 · 6 min
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Ops & Tech

Year one, in numbers: 2,500 riders, 120 cities, what actually worked.

We turned four. This is the annual review — written as we'd want to read it. Every number we can share, every bet that paid off, every one that didn't, and the three decisions that probably saved the company.

DSP-0135Priya Menon · Head of Field Ops Mar 22 · 14 min
Y1